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Thanks to a great topic by MetroidMorphBall, we've got another podcast for you today. In his topic, MMB asks, "Are the best Squenix games coming out on handhelds?" As we all know, Squenix have thrown a lot of resources over the last few years into getting games in front of gamers on the go, whether it's on phones or tablets or a handheld gaming console, or whether it's a new IP or a port or a full-on remake. That gives us a lot to talk about, naturally, due to the number of permutations at play. Perhaps some folks like the old games on new platforms; perhaps someone prefers the brand new IPs on Nintendo and Sony handhelds; maybe there's someone out there who just doesn't like console games (or handhelds!) at all.

It's time to listen to the CoNcast to find out. And, of course, to learn more about Cookie Clicker, the game that never leaves Tiddles unsatisfied.

Source: The CoNcast Subscription Feed, The CoNcast on iTunes, Original CoN Topic

> Cookie Clicker

oh gosh, you too

i thought you were above this

i did this for five hours and decided it was not worth it

> spreadsheets

I don't know about anyone else, but I know I used a (paper!) spreadsheet to keep track of equipment and skill-learning progress in FFTA. While it was useful, it also became symbolic of how much I had to keep track of in that game. And I lost interest not too long after stopping playing it for unrelated reasons.

I hear that the recently-localized-released Record of Agarest War is something along the lines of this. A lot of "administrative" activity, keeping track of the fact that one needs this prerequsite to satisfy that prerequisite and one needs that prerequisite and the other prerequisite and to get whatnot result and stuff. Well, I guess some people would like it.

> wark

wark is now the new f-bomb.

> mo-bile

I don't hear anything wrong with this.

> dissijia

I do hear something wrong with this.

> mo-bull

Oh...I forgot some people actually say it that way. They are using lazy American pronunciation which likes schwas, which I am ethically opposed to.

> Theatrhythm

I say "THEE-ah-THRI-thum". Just like smashing the two source words together.

> imagine putting a game into a console, you put it into your console, press start, and it plays...

...the funniest thing is that, since -- for the longest time -- I hadn't owned a console more recent than the SNES, this was basically my understanding of how videogame systems worked. Turn it on with no cartridge, nothing happens except possibly a placeholder (e.g. Game Boy with black rectangle). Put cartridge in, power on console, turn on TV, grab controller, jump into game.

> something something something!

Something.

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